[Fedora-packaging] Remove requirement to use macros for paths

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Mon Feb 28 23:34:10 UTC 2011


On 02/28/2011 12:55 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:

> Not so sure that the consistency argument is so strong that this is the
> case.  As long as the macros used by the configure script and the hardcoded
> paths used by the spec file are the same, nothing is broken.  If the macros
> change, it's going to be because we want to change the paths that they point
> to for all packages.  So we'd have to update any packages that use hardcoded
> directories regardless of whether the hardcoded directories are also used
> with %configure or not.

True, but if we kept the macros, then we could simply do a mass rebuild 
instead of needing to edit %files.


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